Spinning-spindle.



PATENTED MAR. 28, 1905.

H. KELLY. SPINNING SPINDLE.

APPLICATION FILED 0OT.29,1904.

No. 785,738. Patented March 28, 1905.

UNITED STATES PATENT OEEicE.

HAROLD KELLY, OF BIDDEFORD, MAINE, ASSIGNOR TO SAWYER SPINDLE COMPANY, A CORPORATION OF MAINE.

SPINNING-SPINDLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 785,738, dated March 28, 1905.

Application filed October 29, 1904. Serial No. 230,447.

To whom it Z/ ROW/091%! thereto. Fig. 2 is a detail of the parts shown 5 Beit known thatI, HAROLD KELLY, a citizen in Fig. 1 viewed from the right hand. Fig. of the United States, and a resident of Bidde- 3 is a partial side elevation and vertical secford, county of York, State of Maine, have intion on the line 3 3, Fig. 2, the closure and vented an Improvement in Spinning-Spindles, downhold being shown in normal position.

of which the following description, in connec- Fig. 4 is a sectional detail on the line 3 3, Fig. tion With the accompanying drawings, is a 2, but showing the closure in position to unspecification, like numerals on the drawings cover the inlet-opening and retract the whirlrepresenting like parts. downhold; and Fig. 5 is a perspective view of IO This invention has for its ObJGCb the producthe retaining and guiding device detached.

tion of a novel and efficient combined-oil and The supporting-case 1, having an enlarged 6o doffer guard for spinning-spindles or the like base 2 to rest upon the spindle-rail, the spinwhereby the oil-inlet is provided with a simdle 3, having an attached sleeve-whirl l, and ple, strong, and durable efiective closure and the oil reservoir and snout comprising a ra- 5 the spindle-whirl with a downhold to prevent dial portion 5 and an upturned portion 6,

lifting when dofling. formed integral with the casting constituting The supporting-case for the spindle is usuthe supporting-case and base, may be and are ally provided with an integral upturned oilall substantially of well-known construction. snout havingan inlet-openingin its upper end In Figs. 3 and 4 the upright inlet-opening 20 or head, and a cap is pivotally mounted there- 7 in the upright part 6 of the snout communion to form a closure for the inlet-opening, the cates at its lower end with the duct 8, Fig. 3, 7 cap having a finger or lug at its inner end to drilled into the radial part 5 and communicatproject over the edge of the spindle-whirl and ing with the interior of the case, a plug 9 closprevent lifting thereof when doffing. Such ing the outer end of the duct.

-5 structures are often subjected to relatively In accordance with my present invention hard usage, and very often the ears on which the opposite sides of the upper end or head the cap is mounted will be broken off, making of the oil-snout are preferably flattened and the entire supporting-case worthless. upturned. Broad wings 10 of a guiding and Various constructions have been devised to retaining device are secured thereto, as by 3 increase the strength of the parts, particularly rivets 11, and connected by a bridge 12, narat the head of the oil-snout, and in my presrower than the upper ends of the wings and 30 ent invention I have devised .a very strong, crossing thehead between the inner end theredura-ble, and simple construction and arrangeof and the inlet-opening 7. ment, the whirl-downhold being made as a hen oil is to be introduced to the reservoir part of the closure for the oil-inlet. or snout, the closure is pushed outward into Should the closure be broken, it can be inthe position shown in Fig. 4, the aperture 15 5 stantly removed and a new one substituted, registering with the inlet-opening, and the r the strengthening of the head by the guiding nozzle of an oil-can can then be inserted. The and retaining device practically obviating spring 18 snaps the closure back into normal 4 much chance of breakage. position when the nozzle is withdrawn.

One practical embodiment of my invention Should the attendant wish to remove the 9 is herein illustrated in connection with a wellspindle from the case, he pushes back the cloknown form of spindle-bearing, and the novel sure, using the body 13 as a linger-piece, therefeatures of my invention will be fully deby retracting the inner end or downhold of the 45 scribed in the subjoined specification, and parclosure, as in Fig. 4, and lifts out the spindle.

ticularly pointed out in the following claims. The retaining device 10 12 is preferably Figure 1 is a side elevation of a portion of made of a piece of flat steel or wrought-iron a sleeve-whirl spindle and its supporting-case stamped out into proper shape and then bent, with one embodiment of my invention applied as shown in Fig. 5. This makes the head of an inlet-opening.

the oil-snout very strong and capable of withstanding much hard usage without breakage.

Should the inner end or downhold of the closure break, a new closure can be quickly inserted, the spring being swung to one side on its attaching-pin 20.

Having fully described my invention, what 1 claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a spinning-spindle, a supporting-case having an upturned oil-snout provided with an inlet-opening in its head, a retaining de vice secured rigidly to the sides of and crossing the head, a flat, apertured closure laterally slidable on the head between the sides and under the top of said retaining device and having a whirl-downhold at its inner end, and a spring to normally maintain said closure with its aperture out of alinement with the inletopening and the downhold in operative position.

2. In a spinning-spindle, asupporting-case having an upturned oil-snout provided with a flat closure mounted to slide on the top of the head and having an aperture to register with the inlet-opening, the inner end of said closure forming a downhold for the whirl, a transverse shoulder on said closure, means to guide and retain the latter on the head, comprising depending rings and a connecting-bridge crossing the closure in front of the shoulder, and a spring to cooperate with the closure and normally maintain the shoulder against the bridge of the guiding and retaining means, the inlet-opening being at such time covered by the closure and the downhold yieldingly maintained in operative position.

3. In a spinning-spindle, a supporting-case having an upturned oil-snout provided with an inlet-opening in its head, a retaining device secured thereto and comprising depending wings and a connecting-bridge crossing the top of the head, a sliding closure having an aperture and reduced in thickness to extend beneath the bridge and project beyond it to form a whirl-downhold, and a spring to act upon the closure and maintain it in position to shut the inlet-opening and project the downhold.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

HAROLD KELLY.

lVitnesses:

EDGAR HUBBARD, H. G. HU'rcHINsoN. 

